MonkRome

Reread your first comment. You said its not aid, when it clearly is. Of it course it comes with imperialist strings from a greedy capitalist empire. Address the imperialism, not the millions of lives saved. You should actually talk with one of the organizations that just lost that aid, I have. You think a gay person in India that was kicked out of his family, on the street homeless and sick, cares where the money came from that runs the shelter feeding him and keeping him alive until he gets a job? Do you think the person getting life saving tb or aids medicine cares where the money came from? They care that it keeps coming because being alive is their top priority.

I personally know projects USAID funding kept afloat. Very real people are dying and in dire straits due to the funding cuts. Also PEPFAR funding died under the cuts and then was only partially reinstated. PEPFAR represents what is likely the most successful humanitarian project in world history. I'm not aware of any project saving as many lives and it has been greatly weakened. PEPFAR is credited with saving 26 million lives and funding reductions will absolutely kill millions. Feel free to criticize aspects of USAID you specifically disagree with, but there is no question it saves and improves lives around the world.

How fragile is your ego when you have to say "nuh uh" to something so unambiguous?

Edit: removing most details, not needed.

Don't be a divider, be a helper.

Honestly not enough context here to answer. Are they a former close friend, distant aquintence, former love interest? Do you have a pattern of long period of time with no catch up? A lot of thing in relationships are contextual based on set expectations.

Not once did anyone in the supposedly Jewish side of his family point out that he had a SS tattoo on his chest?

I'm Jewish, if I saw that on his chest I wouldn't have any idea what it means. How could I inform him of his mistake if I didn't know. And if I did know I would have been steering clear of him, not talking to him about his tattoo.

I'd argue at the state level they often have, it just gets lost in the noise. At least in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where I've been.

Solar is easily the cheapest energy and its getting cheaper every year. Repairing a coal power plant is not as attractive as a much cheaper to run biofuel plant. Etc.

Here in germany we have investors abandoning half build solar parks cause they aren't profitable anymore.

Without knowing the specifics, I doubt profitability was the issue. Once a solar panel is installed it is pure profit with minimal maintenance. Companies get in trouble when they commit way more to a project than they can raise in investments. It seems more likely that is what happened.

Lastly your looking at a few countries that are pushing back with what amounts to theater (Germany is 56% renewable energy). Meanwhile the largest producer of energy in the world, China, is staying committed to converting to renewables and s also 56% of the way there.

Sure but the problem would be 100 times worse if fossil fuel adoption doest decline. Its good news that we seem to be on the way to shifting our behavior.

I'm concerned about climate change. But if you ask most people how much progress we've made they would say "barely any". That belief that we can't do it, is the main thing aside from public policy slowing us down. When people think things are hopeless, they often don't see the point in fighting or changing their behavior. I also think most people don't realize that renewable energy adoption has accelerated so quickly the last few years. Every year we have had massive growth over last year in adoption.

iirc ~1/4 of the worlds energy production is renewable. More than 90% of all new electricity capacity worldwide came from renewable sources in 2024. Doomers want you to believe it can't happen again while we are in the very decade that is likely to change the world. Public policy doesn't even matter at this point, renewable energy is cheaper, so nearly all new investments are in renewables.

I seriously doubt anyone keeps records of dog deaths like they do humans. But bear hunters use dogs to hunt them because they scare and corner them, by running them up a tree. American black bears are afraid of everything.